Transcending the Nostalgic: Deindustrialised Landscapes Across Europe

by Juliane Tomann (editor)

Scholarly interest in processes of deindustrialization has, so far, been mainly concerned with specific sites like abandoned mines or former industrialized territories transformed into post-industrial spaces.

This edited volume addresses this problem by suggesting to broaden the perspective on processes of deindustrialization by introducing the concept of landscape and the more-than representational theory to the established discourse.

The aim of the book is to share the practices, narratives, perspectives of the actors and emergent activities that are currently creating and remaking postindustrial landscapes across Europe. This comparative approach sheds light on how societies in different parts of the continent deal with the fact that they have ceased to manufacture things, produce less, and with fewer workers. The outcome is to engender critical discourse within the broader heritage debate where our volume thinks along the lines of heritage as 'meaning making' rather than confined to just tangible heritage such as mines and buildings.

300 pages, ebook

Published October 1, 2019